Download or read book Letters of Charles Waterton of Walton Hall Near Wakefield written by Charles Waterton and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Waterton written by Julia Blackburn and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he turned his park into a sanctuary for animals and birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in the tropical rain forests of South America without a gun or the society of other white men. He was an authority on the poisons used by South American Indians and a taxidermist of note. The huge public that read his books included Dickens, Darwin and Roosevelt. Since his death the memory of Waterton's personal eccenticities has flourished, while the originality of his ideas and work has often suffered. Using his surviving papers, Julia Blackburn has redressed the balance in a biogr aphy that restores Waterton to his place as the first conservationist of the modern age.
Download or read book Wanderings in South America written by Charles Waterton and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strange Life of Charles Waterton 1782 1865 written by Richard Aldington and published by London, Evans Bros. [1949]. This book was released on 1949 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wakefield District Through Time written by Peter Tuffrey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Wakefield and the surrounding area have changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book Science and Eccentricity written by Victoria Carroll and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. This monograph is the first scholarly history of eccentricity. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order. She focuses on the self-taught natural philosopher William Martin, the fossilist Thomas Hawkins and the taxidermist Charles Waterton.
Download or read book The Butterfly Hunter written by Anthony Crawforth and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the epic, true and long overdue story of the young explorer who put forward the first ever case for the creation of a new species, providing what Charles Darwin called the "beautiful proof" for Natural Selection. The major discovery of Batesian Mimicry was developed from Bates's fascinating 11-year journey and study of butterflies in the Amazon rainforest. He noted how certain animals adopt the look of others to deceive predators and gain an advantage to survive. Little known to the public, Bates made other crucial contributions to biology: he collected over 14,000 specimens, of which over 8,000 were new to science at the time. He went on to become the administrator for the Royal Geographical Society and transformed it into an institution which combined exploration with academic research, and was responsible for placing geography on the school curriculum. This important book reassesses Bates's life and finally places both the man and his work in their rightful place alongside the other greats.
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Download or read book Great British Eccentrics written by S. D. Tucker and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining guide to the most eccentric characters from British history
Download or read book Charles Darwin written by John Bowlby and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vivid and engrossing account of Darwin's inner life and his search for the laws of life. We feel the durable texture of his friendships and family attachments, and we witness the slow, painful genesis of ideas that are still transforming the world." --Geoffrey Cowley, New York Times Book Review
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Download or read book Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780 1870 written by Hilary Marland and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987-09-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and Huddersfield as contrasting types of northern towns, and examining in details their systems of medical care, Dr Marland has written a local history that says something important about the country as a whole. Wakefield and Huddersfield contrasted in their economic demographic and social development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, allowing an effective comparative analysis of medical facilities in the two communities. By drawing on diverse sources: from Poor Law and philanthropy to self-help organisations, fringe medicine and medical practice, the book places the development of medical services against the backdrop of the communities in which they evolved, their class structure, organization and social, civic and economic developments.
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Download or read book Works written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin Fors Clavigera letters written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
Download or read book A Handy Book of Reference on All Subjects and for All Readers written by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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